Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 October 1912, Page 4

Commercial.

HITCHINGS, HANKINS AND CO., LTD. WEEKLY REPORT F. 0.8. WELLINGTON. Hitchings, Hankins and Co., Ltd., Levin, report as follows: Potatoes are Blightly easier for most lines. Porkers in great demand and realising high value; wo also have many enquiries for store pigs of all descriptions. Pollard and other Btock foods remain about the same values with a tendency to fall in prices. Poultry in good demand, also laying hens. We have a good market for vealers in unlimited quantity. Fruit is selling well for all aound lines on offer. Horse carrots.—Bsa per ton. Potatoes.—Prime £6 fi« to £6 10s; seed £6, £8 to £10. Onions.—£lo. Apples.—Dessert, per case, 7s to 9s 6d. Cheese.—Best factory, 7d; loaf, 7§d. Butter.—Separator, lljd; best dairy, lid. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 4d per dosen; preserved, Is per dozen. | Dressed pork.-70'n to 90 a, 6Jd; 90's to 100's, 6i'd; b&conera, 6d; choppers, 3|d to 4d; sucking pigs, 7|d. Tallow.-Caskß, 27 8 6d; tins, 25a Od per cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, 4s 6d to 6s; bens, 4a to os; ducks, 5s 9d to 6s Od. Maize.—ss per bushel, to arrive. Wheat.—4s 6d per bushel; 10-iack lots, 4s 4d. Feed barley.—3s lOd per bushel. Peas —3s 9d per bushel; 3a 8d 10-sack lots. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£s 10s per ton. Barley meal —£6 17s 6d per ton. Oats.-Feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd; Duns, 2 3 lOd; seed, 3s 6d to 3s Bd. Straw.—Baled, £3 per ton. Sucrosine—£7 10s to £7 15b per ton. Pig meal—£7 10a per ton. Linseed oil cake.—£l3 7s 6d por ton. Quaff.—Oaten sheaf, £5 per ton ; Straw.—7os per ton. Hay.~£3 10s to £3 15s per ton. Fungus.—3id to 4d per lb.